From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
Grammar School, Hazardville, Conn. 53.
View of a 19th century brick institutional building. This image is part of a series made by one of the three Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company photographers assigned to cover New England or upstate New York. The quest for images that would be saleable as postcards resulted in the documentation of small towns and small town life at the turn of the 20th century. As the photos were shot, the glass plates were sent back to Belfast, Maine, and processed into postcards at the printing plant on High Street. The handsome school is one of the five or six principal buildings in Hazardville, all of which were built in the 1860s and 1870s of brick with browstone trim.
